6 August 2019

This blog is now in its tenth year, started back in February 2007 by Sotise, our correspondent from down under. Bundles of people have contributed over the years, some gone, others holding on and yet others joining and putting their distinctive mark on the contents and direction of the blog. Currently we have about half a dozen active posters and some very generous followers, judging from inputs to our contributions section, but we're always willing to recruit more. Potential authors can get in touch with us c/o our Blogger email addresses. We've had contributors from three continents, with a preponderance of Europeans overall.

The emphasis has been on the free/improv/experimental side of jazz, but with excursions into contemporary and classical music, from Europe and beyond. There are no rules, however; the blog is whatever the posters make of it, and we'd like to keep it that way. We focus on posting out of print material with the objective of drawing attention to music which otherwise might have remained out of sight and out of mind. Due to spam and some past experiences of personal attacks, we 've had to institute a moderator system, so comments may not appear right away, but they will be published.

For a short while, Inconstant Sol carried, for me at least, the living spirit of the old Church Number Nine blog and its community of sharers/appreciators. For a long time now, though, this wonderful hub of generosity and pleasure has stood on its own as a unique and valued place in the universe. Congrats to all participants and here's to the revelations and epiphanies to come.

Hello there (again)thanks for the encouragement, in fact, i would like to join the posters intermittently - right now there is some spare time available... - so if someone would care to open the door -and, of course: happy new year to you all - tantr... soti... onx... ricc... etc etc , you know who you are!all the best fromOwombat

Hello inconstant sol. My name is Michael King and I am contacting you on behalf of the widow of Elton dean, Marino Dean, Hazel Miller of Ogun Records, and Riccardo Bergerone who privately recorded Elton Dean's Ninesense at the 100 Club, March 5th, 1979. This recording was sent to me by Riccardo towards a 3 disc set that my record 'label of love' Reel Recordings is producing this year. How it reached inconstant sol I have no idea, but this recording, properly remastered, will be released as 2 cd's along with a dvd of Elton's Quintet. Certainly you can understand our wish to have this download removed from your site. Please contact me at miking.reelrecording@gmail.com with your response. I appreciate your attention to this. Best wishes, Michael King/Reel Recordings.

I see that the links have been removed which obviously is the right thing to do under the circumstances. Did anyone contact Michael King directly about this? I would encourage everyone who downloaded this (and those who didn't) to purchase the thing once it's commercially available. Reel is a fine enterprise, and deserves support for its archeological excavations into past masters. The blog has benefited at least once before from his remastering skills.

Today I bought a new book about Tony Oxley (in german).And on page 48 there is a reference to Inconstant Sol!The chapter is about the tour and recording of Lee Konitz with Derek Bailey, Gavin Bryars and Tony Oxley > http://inconstantsol.blogspot.com/2008/06/lee-konitz-quartet-with-derek-bailey.html

Really - what a long, strange trip.

The book is by Ulrich Kurth "Tony Oxley - The 4th Quarter of the Triad" (Fünf Jahrzente improvisierter Musik.It's published by Wolke Verlag > http://www.wolke-verlag.de/

My usual procedure is to read the post here and listen the artist from Vkontakte. User based music library in Vkontakte is wide enough and wider every day. There is little you cant find form there by simple search. Just to listen. I have found a lot. Thanks!

Hello. I love your blog, keep up the good work and that good music.Also i want to ask you about the few concerts of pharaoh Sanders, I want them real bad but they are expired.Can you help me pls, i searched everywhere for them and you are the only hope i have.PLs send me mail with you response - petsicrew@gmail.comand check my blog if you want - funkallisto.blogspot.com

Apologies, but I'm a bit confused with the new downloading facilities - tried to do it with the Toshiko and Thad Jones, and the Yahoo player came up, played a track, then stopped; I couldn't then see any way to download the rest of the concerts. Are you able to help please? Sphere.

Hi, a few years ago Ricardo shared some great stuff in the larger comments section. One of them was a WSQ show from the late 70s. Can there be a re-up on that. It is a great item that I think is lost to me now. -Thanks

Hello, excuse my writing because I use the google translator .... my name is Andrea and I am the brother of Richard Beduschi, who died in September. I am writing to you asked how to get in touch with claudio mencarell (ilario rozen) to give him all the material of Richard, numerous recordings. I would be grateful. please email me at vimanone@alice.it

Could you eventually re-up"Cecil Taylor - Yoshi's, December 1998" and "Anthony Braxton Quartet - Leeds - November 1985"? Or does anybody else have a link to those concerts? Best regards & thanks for all your work on this blog, which is one of the very best ones!

I've been reading many posts here; you guys are fascinating, the knowledge you bring, even apart from the music you bring. Thank you.

You must be frustrated to have to repeat the same message, especially with Rapidshare changing their policies I swear every month. When Onxidlib has to repeat "the link is NOT dead - only my public traffic is exhausted," to the point that you can hear his growing annoyance that so many people evidently cannot read the comments around them; well, I sympathize.

Maybe you can put in on the front page (or anyplace that offers downloads from Rapidshare), top, bigger font, blinking (okay, not blinking) that reads: "If you are downloading free from Rapidshare, know that Rapidshare has a cap for free users. Probably the download that you desire is still there (unless it says "file not found"); try again tomorrow. Or two days from now. Or a week from now. Rapidshare is a bitch that way. Cheers, inconstant sol."

I can't believe that I randomly found your blog yesterday! the stuff here is mind blowing!! you either have stuff that I never imagined seeing in my life, or stuff I've never heard of at all! amazing collection! Thank you very much for posting it here! please keep up the good work!!

Hi greg Kuchmek, i got here several months ago and this site (one of many) still blows my mind... deeply...lol.

in that vein: Here is a note worth remembering!!! (thanks to infinitefool.blogspot.com/ for pointing it out to me) "Don't forget that Steve Coleman is giving away 16 of his albums over at his web site. Check out his essay explaining why, while you're at it... ESSAY: m-base.com/give_away.html FREE DL m-base.com/download.html ..."tell them I said "holy shit!" or some other irreverent exclamation!

(please be the person who downloads this and leaves a message here that it un-rarred alright... i just spent 2 days uploading on my cheap slow ISP... I will dl it myself later if no one leaves a message saying it is with out errors)

The music opens with Richie Havens tearing up the stage like he probably never has before or since in his life, with just a beat up out of tune "unplugged" acoustic guitar.. and oh yeah his singing. The entire 3-day event being made more significant by 'the Nam'

I noticed something at this other site by a "chat" guy named "slipperman" a little compendium of Brian Eno which is essentially "everything ever done there is, and is there, by eno"(who knows how long it will last) http://freetexthost.com/ijhmk4zkjf

hi all,the odds of this are low i realize, but would someone not only have the bobby naughton "nature's consort" lp, but would also be willing to post it?!

i've been looking for this one since i first saw a post with its mention on the seemingly defunct but still excellent "nine grey chairs" blog. i guess that it makes it 5 years, and i can't find it anywhere (other than i saw it on ebay once, unfortunately a bit too late).

Hi, I have quite a few recordings I made personally a few years back around the SF bay area. There was a very good live spot called the Jazz House and some great things came through. I was able to set up a nice recordings rig and got very good quality. If you are interested I could DB them to the moderator. Artists include Tim Berne, Conference Call, Brotzmann, Lucas NIggli, Tony Malaby and on and on. I did get the artists permission to record as well in each case.

Thanks for the great music as always. Can a suggest you update your Mike Osborne links as you've somehow managed to have him references three times - in the list of musicians - which causes some confusion.

Hey Anonymous, the directors cut of the Woodstock movie downloaded and played fine, thanks for the Mega upload. Did you know that it would have fit all in one piece on Mega and still give you a free download?(free kim dotcom... oh yeah he is out and New Zeland is very honorably letting him live there, his native home, despite the record companies in the USA wanting to kill him... still he is not as great a hero as Victor Assange (and his crew of martyrs) IMHO

I have done a small bit of "karma yoga" work for the cause and taken the pains of downloading the mystery mr ra movie from rapidshare dowloading a file of this size from rapidshare means using every trick i could think of .. rapidshare now claims that file chunks above 300 meg or so only will be downloadable if you pay them for the service... however that does not seem to apply at key times of day (ie the graveyard shift for download... like 3 AM to 8 AM here)I also posted the on a comment under the place i got the rapidshare from... the sun ra free dl site (everyone knows what I mean right??? )I hold ra to be a greater saint of music than for instance John Coltrane... for who i also have a godly respect... but, in the vein of putting a candle high rather than under a chair, so that all may see.. here is mystery mr ra:::Mystery, Mr Ra (on Mega.. which as of this date delivers a file in a civilized way... who knows how it will work 3 months from now)

Have been enjoying the posts here quite a bit, and thought I'd contribute with something. Here's two fine OOP free jazz albums that I haven't seen on any blogs (which of course doesn't mean they're not out there somewhere. Cheers

Afro Algonquin – Afro Algonquin

1. Afro Algonquin2. Spirit Of Starlight3. Fever4. Dog Soldier5. While Dancing With The Dolphins I Remember6. Tele Fonkin' Over Deutschland/Afro Algonquin Now

Whew, I have been wondering around in blogs for several hours and had forgotten where I saw something interesting... A Sam Rivers album from 1998, big band of improvisers, that I never knew about, I had left it alone cause it was on that uploaded.net server that i dislike almost as much as rapidshare... and i was planning on going to "Lossless World" and dicking around with his tricky links... most of which are uploaded.net... I forgot what blog I had seen it on, here it is... This Rivers really looks good.. I hope it is:http://www.jazzymelody.com/2014/05/sam-rivers-rivbea-all-star-orchestra.html

If anyone sees this and has it available, could you kindly re-up "Wave" by Masahiko Togashi, Gary Peacock, and Masahiko Satoh? Cannot find it anywhere. Already have eternal gratitude for this site, but this will make it eternal gratitude x2.

I apologize for the volume of my recent requests and promise to stop for awhile after this! But could you repost Too Much Too Soon Orchestra's "What's the Point of Paris?"http://inconstantsol.blogspot.com/2013/07/dror-feiler-too-much-too-soon-orchestra.htmlSo much great music on your site..so little time. Thanks

Hello: If anyone has recommendations for record stores to visit in Tokyo, I would be very grateful to hear them. (I know of a few recommendations floating around online, but I'd like the inconstant sol version -- places where there's a decent shot of finding some Peacock-in-Japan LPs, etc.)

Ornette Coleman's Original Quartet featuring Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins Live at Teatro Municipale Valli, Reggio Emilia, Italy 4-24-1990 in FLAC. Riccardo uploaded this originally way back. A great and long show with many classic Ornette Coleman tunes, Enjoy!

— Rejoins Ornette for three-night gig at Slugs, East Village, NYC and recorded SCIENCE FICTION album @ CBS Studios, 49 East 52nd Street, NY, 6th floor in Studio E — Bobby misses the first day of school in La Puente where he is employed as 6th grade classroom teacher — These are ironically the first formal recordings of Bobby with Ornette (BB on these sessions Sept 9 & 10) — About these sessions, years ago Bobby told me how Ornette had used a sort of makeshift traffic signal gadget to let soloists know when their solo was over, it was a red light-green light set-up, and I have often thought about this device, and in a recent conversation with Bobby he said you can hear a note of his at the tail end of one of Dewey’s solos because of misdirections from the Go-Stop lights [telcon 10mar2o10] — And so, lo & behold, in the booklet for the 2009 Dave Brubeck Quartet 3-cd Sony Legacy Edition of TIME OUT there is a photo of this traffic signal (a lot less homemade than I had imagined) in Studio E !

*The Slugs gig was first weekend of September: Friday, Saturday, Sunday, September 3, 4, & 5 — recordings exist of Sept 3 & 5 recorded by the painter John E. D’Agostino — Radio host Ben Young WKCR aired the extant recordings on his Ornette birthday show March 9, 2o14

Did anyone record the broadcasting? Could you upload on incostant sol?

on March 20 2014, I posted a "mega.nz" 4 part link for the video Woodstock (yes the "woodstock" movie)... Now about 2 years later, mega sent me a notice that they r removing part 2 because of a complaint. (the guy in the movie attending woodstock said "the people" owned it, i was going on his advice) That is the first time I have had a "complaint"... so even though it took two years i am feeling a little tentative right now...I guess someone might as well remove all 4 links for it at the above said date... "3 days of peace love and LSD"

Hi Martin, thanks for your contribution / re-up.But maybe next time you bring it to the contributions section.BTW - your 1fichier link is still up at.......http://inconstantsol.blogspot.de/2009/06/steve-lacy-sextet-wuppertal-1983-jan-14.htmlCheers

@Ernst,My apologies. I am having problems. I left my 'happy birthday' message in the 'Ten years and going' section but the comment appeared on the 'Free Form' section. I can't find the Lacy Wuppertal gig scrolling back through the Lacy pages but your link takes me there. I'm sure I left the Lacy and Burgon links in the Contribution section, where did they actually appear?

Hi Anonymous - I'm back from Athens (Greece) as today. Didn't had any access to the web (and I haven't missed it). So I do not know who deleted your links.I only delete personal insults or similar stuff. I do not censor opinions wether I like them or not - period.